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How Galloway beef cattle help protect wildlife

Conservation farmer Patrick Laurie is inviting people onto his hill farm to discover how Galloway cattle can be used to help threatened bird species. It's...

Putting meat into A Play, A Pie and a Pint

The fifth production from BBC Scotland’s televising of A Play, A Pie & A Pint is Meat Market by Chris Gray. It is a comic...

Preserving the past and recording folk tales

The Wilson Tales Project aims to breathe new life into old tales with the help of local people from the Borders . They have come...

Wigtown Book Festival starts later this week

Scotland’s National Book Town is gearing up for a friendly invasion of book lovers when the annual Wigtown Book Festival gets underway this week. Authors...
Participant Anna MacDonald during the recording process

Young Gaelic singers to perform in Canada

Six young Gaelic singers from across Scotland have been invited to perform at the renowned Celtic music festival, Celtic Colours, in Canada next month. This...
(L-R) Claire Askew, Denise Mina, David Baldacci, Doug Johnstone, Manda Scott, Craig Robertson and Ambrose Parry (Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman) photographed at the torchlit procession at Stirling Castle for Bloody Scotland(Photo: Paul Reich)

Bloody Scotland was another crime success story

The Bloody Scotland crime writing festival had an attendance of over 10,000 for the first time. McIlvanney Prize winner, Manda Scott, set the tone for...


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